Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Empowerment of women through scientific career

The
Department of Biotechnology, University of Mysore, under the project
'The Women Scientists Scheme (WOS)' to empower women who have breaks in
their career due to familial and societal reasons.

The Women
Scientists Scheme has been evolved in the context, by the Department of
Science and Technology for providing opportunities to women scientists
and technologies between the age group of 30 to 50 years who desire to
return to mainstream science and work as bench-level scientists. The
department empowers women by providing them with research grants in the
field of Life Sciences.

Under the scheme, women are empowered
with self sustained management of research goals, besides gaining
confidence in their life to be employed as long as they are delivering
the quality and value added research to the scientific society.

In
the same, a subject expert committee meeting on 'The Women Scientists
Scheme (WOS)' was held in city from July 18 to 21. The major outcome of
the meeting was to have an impact on the scientific career of the women
who wish to come back to the main stream of research in life sciences.

Subject
Expert Committee Member Prof Bharathi P Salimath said that women
constitute an important section of the workforce. "However, the present
situation of a large number of weel-qualified women who due to various
circumstances have been left out of the Science and Technology
activities needs to be addressed," she added.

She further said,
The WOS is aimed to create opportunities for women scientists for
pursuing research in basic or applied sciences in frontier areas of
science and engineering, on problems of societal relevance, followed by
self-employment.

The subject experts who constituted the
committee to validate the scientific content of the women scientists are
chosen from all over India and are the cream of academicians from life
sciences background. For details contact 0821-2419879.